{"id":1029,"date":"2023-06-11T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/2023\/06\/11\/trip-to-japan\/"},"modified":"2023-06-11T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:16:16","slug":"trip-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/2023\/06\/11\/trip-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgoBDjU214OqvZLGUWgIxPmHAO07usZFLH7TFbffGIF7r1iCqnPJ7zeUr_lF7pSozt8bvg8bZvmdC9Canl-FdxBDId7DFQ67hBKE8_Wkd15XM-s3OEh4lrPNBgXVUgz_rdUJgaUQENL5aRcwKEfaGo33U3sgNOm8q1GfTej5QZHZzsCbUsgHzNS2W7fDA\/s2966\/2023.07.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I apologize for not posting on my blog in a while.  I went to Japan in May.  I had a job teaching watercolor on a cruise ship. Tom and I went over early and toured Tokyo on our own.  Then we boarded the Queen Elizabeth and went around the southern coast of Japan.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhlsWA8wENOmxZh6ihLN-3wHp-4QWhbGnb29e5lVR2RIhU8CHd9dZEyen0apR0kYCKUtBlIePAEq3L0i0xa8vuOFBGS6We2DwPgGw0jmyRP3_lyBS9RKInKFFQIbNBRetttN36HDLTsfUhrMkA7s5DwhigUvuv_2f99knHSoQ4UsUqgcjg5dq6bw1rNag\/s3612\/2023.06.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here are two paintings I did as a demo for my students, many of them who didn&#8217;t speak English. It was a challenge. Cherry blossoms are a big deal in Japan, just as they are in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for not posting on my blog in a while. I went to Japan in May. I had a job teaching watercolor on a cruise ship. Tom and I went over early and toured Tokyo on our own. Then we boarded the Queen Elizabeth and went around the southern coast of Japan. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jmcelvany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}